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7627468 |
Apparatus and method for extracting syllabic nuclei
An apparatus enabling automatic determination of a portion that reliably represents a feature of a speech waveform includes: an acoustic/prosodic analysis unit calculating, from data, distribution...
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7606702 |
Speech decoder, speech decoding method, program and storage media to improve voice clarity by emphasizing voice tract characteristics using estimated formants
A code separation/decoding unit restores a vocal tract characteristic sp 1 and a vocal source signal r 1 . A vocal tract characteristic modification unit modifies the vocal tract characteristic sp...
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7546237 |
Bandwidth extension of narrowband speech
A system extends the bandwidth of a narrowband speech signal into a wideband spectrum. The system includes a high-band generator that generates a high frequency spectrum based on a narrowband...
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7542956 |
Autonomic computing method and apparatus
The disparate data and commands from are received from a managed resource ( 102 ) and have potentially different semantics. The disparate data and commands are processed according to rules received...
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7519531 |
Speaker adaptive learning of resonance targets in a hidden trajectory model of speech coarticulation
A computer-implemented method is provided for training a hidden trajectory model, of a speech recognition system, which generates Vocal Tract Resonance (VTR) targets. The method includes obtaining...
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RE40634 |
Voice interaction analysis module
A signal monitoring apparatus and method involving devices for monitoring signals representing communications traffic, devices for identifying at least one predetermined parameter by analyzing the...
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7475011 |
Greedy algorithm for identifying values for vocal tract resonance vectors
A method and apparatus identify values for components of a vocal tract resonance vector by sequentially determining values for each component of the vocal tract resonance vector. To determine a...
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7454350 |
Methods for evaluating near-term suicidal risk using vocal parameters
A method for evaluating near-term suicidal risk by analysis of a series of spoken words includes converting the spoken series of words into a signal having characteristics indicative of said words...
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7424423 |
Method and apparatus for formant tracking using a residual model
A method of tracking formants defines a formant search space comprising sets of formants to be searched. Formants are identified for a first frame in the speech utterance by searching the entirety...
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7376562 |
Method and apparatus for nonlinear frequency analysis of structured signals
The present invention relates to systems and methods for processing acoustic signals, such as music and speech. The method involves nonlinear frequency analysis of an incoming acoustic signal. In...
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7366656 |
Method apparatus and system for processing acoustic signals
A method of identifying patterns in a digitized acoustic signal is disclosed. The method comprises: (i) converting the digitized acoustic signal into a spatial representation being defined by a...
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7337107 |
Perceptual harmonic cepstral coefficients as the front-end for speech recognition
Pitch estimation and classification into voiced, unvoiced and transitional speech were performed by a spectro-temporal auto-correlation technique. A peak picking formula was then employed. A...
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7330813 |
Speech processing apparatus and mobile communication terminal
A speech processing apparatus able to enhance formants more naturally, wherein a speech analyzing unit analyzes an input speech signal to find LPCs and converts the LPCs to LSPs, a speech decoding...
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7272559 |
Noninvasive detection of neuro diseases
Noninvasive, remote methods and apparatus for detecting early phases of neuro diseases such as the non-tremor phase of Parkinson's disease, dyskinesia, dyslexia and neuroatrophy, etc., are...
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7219061 |
Method for detecting the time sequences of a fundamental frequency of an audio response unit to be synthesized
Predetermined macrosegments of the fundamental frequency are determined by a neural network, and these predefined macrosegments are reproduced by fundamental-frequency sequences stored in a...
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7177803 |
Method and apparatus for enhancing loudness of an audio signal
Human hearing perceives loudness based on critical bands corresponding to different frequency ranges. As a sound's frequency spectrum increases beyond a critical band into a previously unexcited...
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7155314 |
Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20 . The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
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7155313 |
Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20 . The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
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7151983 |
Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20 . The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
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7146252 |
Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20. The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
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7146251 |
Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20 . The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
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7146250 |
Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20 . The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
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7146249 |
Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20 . The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
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7142946 |
Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20 . The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
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7136876 |
Method and system for building an abbreviation dictionary
A method and apparatus for building an abbreviation dictionary involves searching through a set of source documents. The abbreviations having likely definitions are identified and the definitions...
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7124077 |
Frequency domain postfiltering for quality enhancement of coded speech
A method and system of performing postfiltering in the frequency domain to improve the quality of a speech signal, especially for synthesized speech resulting from codecs of low bit-rate, is...
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7120575 |
Method and system for the automatic segmentation of an audio stream into semantic or syntactic units
A digitized speech signal ( 600 ) is input to an F0 (fundamental frequency) processor that computes ( 610 ) a continuous F0 data from the speech signal. By the criterion voicing state transition...
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7117152 |
System and method for speech recognition assisted voice communications
A communication system includes communications equipment having a voice input device, an acoustic output device, and a visual display device. The communications equipment receives voice information...
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7085721 |
Method and apparatus for fundamental frequency extraction or detection in speech
An object is to provide a method of extracting sound-source information, which method enables the characteristics of fixed points of mapping from filter center frequency to output instantaneous...
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7062443 |
Methods and apparatus for evaluating near-term suicidal risk using vocal parameters
A method for evaluating near-term suicidal risk by analysis of a series of spoken words includes converting the spoken series of words into a signal having characteristics indicative of said words...
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7039582 |
Speech recognition using dual-pass pitch tracking
A computationally efficient and robust pitch detection and tracking system and related methods are presented. According to certain exemplary implementations a method is presented comprising...
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7016840 |
Method and apparatus for synthesizing speech and method apparatus for registering pitch waveforms
A speech synthesis apparatus ( 10 ) comprises speech segment disassembling means ( 101 ) for disassembling the speech segments each including at least one phoneme into a plurality of pitch...
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7016833 |
Speaker verification system using acoustic data and non-acoustic data
A method and system for speech characterization. One embodiment includes a method for speaker verification which includes collecting data from a speaker, wherein the data comprises acoustic data...
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6999920 |
Exponential echo and noise reduction in silence intervals
Method for the reduction of echo and/or noise signals in TK systems for the transmission of useful acoustic signals, in which, when a silence interval is present, the distorted useful signal is...
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6963833 |
Modifications in the multi-band excitation (MBE) model for generating high quality speech at low bit rates
The invention relates to improving parameter estimation and speech synthesis. Pursuant to one aspect of the invention, a path of pitch candidates having low errors is tracked to determine a pitch...
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6944589 |
Voice analyzing and synthesizing apparatus and method, and program
A voice analyzing apparatus comprises: a first analyzer that analyzes a voice into harmonic components and inharmonic components: a second analyzer that analyzes a magnitude spectrum envelope of...
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6917911 |
System and method for voice user interface navigation
A Voice User Interface (VUI) or Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system utilizes three levels of navigation (e.g. Main Menu, Services, and Helper Commands) in presenting information units arranged...
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6915256 |
Pitch quantization for distributed speech recognition
A system, method and computer readable medium for quantizing pitch information of audio is disclosed. The method includes capturing audio representing a numbered frame of a plurality of numbered...
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6898568 |
Speaker verification utilizing compressed audio formants
A identity of a remote speaker is verified by receiving compressed audio formants from a remote Internet telephony client and comparing the compressed audio formants with sample compressed audio...
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6829577 |
Generating non-stationary additive noise for addition to synthesized speech
A method for producing vowel sounds in a waveform generator using non-stationary additive noise (NSAN) can include computing a frequency spectrum for a selected group of pitch pulses in a recorded...
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6766288 |
Fast find fundamental method
The present invention contains three methods for quickly deducing the fundamental frequency of a complex wave form or signal. One method uses the relationships among the frequencies of higher...
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6760645 |
Training of autonomous robots
A clicker-training technique developed for animal training is adapted for training robots, notably autonomous animal-like robots. In this robot-training method, a behaviour (for example, (DIG)) is...
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6708154 |
Method and apparatus for using formant models in resonance control for speech systems
A model is provided for formants found in human speech. Under one aspect of the invention, the model is used to synthesize speech. Under this aspect of the invention, the formant model is used to...
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6708081 |
Electronic equipment with an autonomous function
The invention is directed to electronic equipment, such as a pet robot, with an autonomous emotion-based function. The electronic equipment executes environment detection processing,...
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6697708 |
Robot apparatus and robot apparatus motion control method
A robot apparatus includes a command controller ( 101 ) for outputting an output command associated with an input command, management units ( 102 ), ( 103 ) and ( 104 ) for outputting data...
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6697457 |
Voice messaging system that organizes voice messages based on detected emotion
A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for managing voice messages based on emotion characteristics of the voice messages. First, a plurality of voice messages that are...
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6675141 |
Apparatus for converting reproducing speed and method of converting reproducing speed
A method and apparatus for converting the reproducing speed of an acoustic signal where, of the acoustic signals held in a data recording section 1 , the input acoustic signal s 1 (sampled for...
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6665637 |
Error concealment in relation to decoding of encoded acoustic signals
The present invention relates to the concealment of errors in decoded acoustic signals caused by encoded data representing the acoustic signals being partially lost or damaged during transmission...
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6660923 |
Method for extracting the formant of a musical tone, recording medium and apparatus for extracting the formant of a musical tone
There are provided a power line spectrum extractor for extracting power line spectra of a waveform to be processed; a level interpolation controller for performing level interpolation control on...
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6647123 |
Signal processing circuit and method for increasing speech intelligibility
A signal processing circuit and method for increasing speech intelligibility. The invention comprises a receiving circuit for receiving an audio signal detectable by a human. A gain amplifying...
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